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ceremony would not take place Thursday,
but that the delay would not be long.

was again seen. He said he was now con-
frmed in his original intention not to issue
license until compelled to by legal process.
II believe that this whole thing is gotten up
py some sharp-witted friends of Spies, said
ne, who propose to use an innocent and
foolish young girl to create sympathy tor him
IN the hope that the governor may pardon
him or commute his sentence. The passage
IN an Interview with Miss Van Zandt where
She says that Spies has experienced u change
OF heart and will be a better man if he is ever
liberated, canviuces me that the scheme is to
represent him as reformed and entitled to
executive clemency. L know Spies nature
100 well to believe that he loves the girl.
don't believe that she loves him,
but she thinks she does. I think
that the real affinity is between Miss Van
Zandt, who has nine dogs, and Capt. Black,
VINO has sixty dogs. regard it as an outrage
on decency and an insult to the law that this
Spies, with his neck i'll halter should defy
all the dictates of honor and manhood and
seek TO drag dawn TO his own disgrace an in
nocent and foolish girl, aud l propose to call
on Mr.. Van Zandt and represent the thing to
him as look at it. l may be thrown out. but
think if he is the right sort of man he will
not let his daughter commit an act which may
gain her little notoriety now. but will be an
everlasting disgrace hereafter"
AT PITTSBURG.
PITTsBURG, Jan. 17.-Upon the receipt
Mrs. ] Ohm Arthurs, the aunt of Miss Nina
Van Zandt, had telegraphed from this city
to Marriage Clerk Seeger forbdding him
issuing license for the marriage of the
young lady to Spies, the anarchist, repor-
ter called upon the lady at her residence in
Oakland to ascertain the attitude of Miss
Van ZandtS friends in regard to her course
of conduct. Mrs. Arthurs seemed heart
broken. To the reporter she said:
spent nearly the entire Sabbath on my
knees in prayer for that unfortunate girl, and
when opened the paper this morning and
saw that Eugene Seeger, the Chicago mar
riage license clerk, had refused the license, so
that she could not marry, l thanked God for
what seemed direct answer to my pray er, and
then the next thing did was to send a tele-
gram to Mr.. Seeger, thanking him for his
manliness and courage in daring to refuse
the license.
THE FIRST INFORMATION
which the relatives had of the existing state
of affairs was the announcement made in.
the papers of Saturday morning last The
shock to Mrs. Arthms and her distinguished
father and mother can readily be imagined,
especially as Miss Van Zandts mother, who
is the only sister of Mrs. ArthurS, had been
visiting her parents and sister just two
weeks previous, and with the exception of
jokingly remarking that Nina expected to
marry some nice young man in the
spring, had made nothing known
and had not given the slightest
hint in the true direction. On reading the
news so great was the prostration of Mrs.
Arthurs' father, William 3. Clark. that
Mrs. Arthurs was obliged to write to the
Van Zandts the message he wished to send.
The letter was mailed by 10 o'clock Satur-
day morning imploring them to prevent the
wedding. This was closely followed by
another. and the Van Zandt family We're
informed that henccforth they were not to
be considered in the light of relatives.
Every connection, socially and financially,
was dissolved forever and Miss Nina
utterly disnherited. ''She will receive
NO MORE THAN OUR DOG
lying on there on the rug; every dollar will
be bequeathed to charitable purposes" said
Mrs. Arthurs as she wiped the bitter tears
from her eyes. This morning letter was
received from Mrs. Van Zandt, from Chi
cago, written before the receipt of those
sent from Pittsburg, in which she informs
her relatives of Nina'S approaching marri-
age to Spies, the anarchist, and invites
them to be present at the ceremony.
which is to be performed on
Tuesday in the Jail in Chicago,
adding, also, that she and Mr..
Van Zandt could find no fault in the man,
ami had given their full consent to the
nuptials, and that she hoped the friends
here would not Worry themselves. ''This
letter." continued Mrs. Arthurs, (which
shows 'Nina's parents to be as highly blamed
as Nina herself, only made father and all
of US more firm in the determination to dis
own the family forever" Il fear," con-
tinued Mrs. Arthurs, THAT it is
HER BRIGHT WAY OF TALKING
that has led her into this. She never saw
Spies until that day in the courtroom.
Then she probably visited him in the jail,
and an exchange of words and sentiments
led to this. But we cannot account for
this complete infatuation unless she and
her father and mother have all gone clear
crazy. and we think they have. Ii Nina is
an atheist now, she certainly was not last
summer. as she contemplated at that time
Joining church." Mr.. Clark will posi-
lively refuse to have anything more to do
with the family. If the marriage takes
place not dollar will be expended III the
way of release for the condemned anarchist.
Mr.. Clark is lying seriously ill at his ele-
CANT residence in Oakland, prostrated by
the news of Miss Nina's intended marriage,
and the family fear he will not recover.
THE EMMONS CASE.